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Featured Lectures
Our Foundations and Frontiers
Steven J. Fluharty
Dean and Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience
Upcoming Lectures
Lectures by Topic
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Choosing History: A Philosophy of the Past
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Lying Your Way to the Truth
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Why Share Power?
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It's Not a Dream It's a Memory: The Role of Sleep in Memory Storage
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What's the Matter with American Exceptionalism?
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Water and Future Climate Change
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The Chemistry and Geopolitics of the Rare Earth Elements
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The Cosmos as a Microscope: Reading the Laws of Nature in the Night Sky
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The Knowable Universe
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When Poetry Gets the Blues
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Crash
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What Makes a Poem a Poem?
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Social Norms
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Drosophila and Human Disease: How the Fly Provides Insight into Brain Disease and Injury
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Anthropology and Globalization: An Urgent Challenge and Responsibility
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The Nature of Nature
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Writing the Right on What's 'Right
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An Open Letter to Mister Rogers
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Crusading, Then and Now
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Down with Fractions!
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Why Achievement Isn't "Normal"
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Death and Body Fluids (or Why Religion is Important)
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Virtuality and the (Real) Humanities
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The Human Brain 2.0
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Major Matters
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Why Is Mathematics Useful?
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A Constitutional Moment: Freedom of Religion in One Minute
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The Difference between Blues and Jazz
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Attention Deficits
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Is America Rome? Why Do You Ask?
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Why Fly-Fishing Is a Zen Experience
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Site of Sight, Right of Sight, and Rite of Sight: Exploring the Cultures of Seeing
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Climate in Crisis
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Ethnography in the Age of Supercrunching
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How to Read Wild Biodiversity: Barcode It
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The Life and Death of the Mississippi Delta
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Chopin's Minute Waltz
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The Humanities are in Crisis! No, the Humanities are the Crisis!
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Is American Government Obsolete? Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
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Children - the Pursuit of Happiness?
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Human History
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John F. Kennedy’s Sex Life
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How Women’s Studies Can Save Your Life
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Hypocrisy: How Evolution Guarantees Human Inconsistency
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Language Change in Philadelphia
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Brokeback Nation
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Economics
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Beyond the Founding Fathers
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On the Stability of Life
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Imperialism in the Modern Middle East
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U.S. Military Mortality in Iraq
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Is It Wrong To Punish Prisoners?
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Can the Musical Object Speak?
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Intracellular Landfills
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The Fundamental Nature of Consciousness
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Faust in Copenhagen: A 60 Second Tour of Quantum Mechanics, Politics, and Science Humor
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Why Supreme Court Decisions Are Hard to Read, and Why We Should Read Them Anyway
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How to Protect Civil Liberties While Protecting Against Terrorism
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Beauty
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The Unknown
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Particles from Proton Collisions in 60 Seconds
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Are humans still evolving?
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Freudian Time
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Divided and Dangerous: Human History from a Different Angle
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Why 3-D Movies Do and Don't Matter
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Research and Education for an Energetic Future
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Back to the Future: Antarctic Ice Sheets in a Warm World
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Why Bribe?
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What Would the Founders Think: Political Polarization and the 2012 Election
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INjustice and Personal Pursuits
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For the Love of Online Learning
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Yes We Can ... Or Maybe We Won't: The Youth Vote in this Presidential Election
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American Isolation: It's Not What You Think
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From Tupac to Gangster Arabi: Hip-Hop in the Middle East
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Seeing Ulysses in Philadelphia
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Egypt's Leaderless Revolt: A View From the Ground
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Why We Speak
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
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Ten Things I Love About Penn
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Morrison, Jazz and Postmodernity
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The Other 96% (of the Universe)
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The Genome: The Inner Universe and the Best Place to Put Your Money
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What Do We Know About the Boundary Between Normality and Abnormality?
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A 60-Second Tweet on How Songbirds Coordinate Brain Hemispheres to Sing
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“The World in ‘Posts’: Our Inability to Deal With the Past in the Present.”
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"Measurement vs. Theory in all the Sciences
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The People's Constitution
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Unequal Life Chances
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The Anthropocentrocene: Narcissism and Humility in the 'Age of Man'
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Rumors of Approaching Bubonic Plague Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
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A Degenerate Dance: Music From Between the Wars by Erwin Schulhoff
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Tax Day Blues: Reflections on U.S. Debt and Deficits
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60-Second Slam: Alumni Weekend 2014
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You Might Live to Be 100. Get Ready for It!
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The Necessary Revolution is Necessary Now
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Racing My Dreams: What Life on the Track Has Meant to Me
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Peacocks Don't Flirt
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The Problem of the Prostitutes: Urban Development in the Center of Ancient Rome
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Recycling par Excellence—Keeping the Revs up with ATP
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Interest Aggregation: How Do We Get What We Want?
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Learning to Say Yes
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What is 20 Cents Worth?
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Where Do They Go from Here?
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Don't Fear the Reboot
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How NOT to Cheat on Your Taxes
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How Did Andy Warhol's Soul Wind Up in Russia?
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A History of Copyright in the U.S.: From the Constitution to Today
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The Revolution Will Be Evidence-Based: The Promising Future of American Criminal Justice
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The Origin of the Elements
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Impromptu Man
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The World Has Raised Its Whip; Where Will It Descend?
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Why Do Some Oppose Genetically Modified Foods?
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Our Foundations and Frontiers
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Looking at the Police Through Many Eyes
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Why Do Criminals Have Low Heart Rates?
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Soils Sustain Life
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Dear Literary Historians of the Future
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Hooked on Taxes: How Politicians Made Corporations Powerful
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Why Leaders Fight, or Who Cares about Leadership?
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Virtual Collective Conscience and Civil Disengagement
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A Little Learning...
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That Time I Thought I Had Scabies and How It Brought Me to Penn
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When Nurture Meets Nature: The New Field of Behavioral Epigenetics
Lectures by Speaker
Paul K. Saint-Amour
Masao Sako
Eric Schelter
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Susan Schneider
Gino Segre
Heather Sharkey
Ian Skahill
Rogers Smith
Dyana So
Wendy Steiner
Peter Struck
Kok-Chor Tan
Deborah Thomas
Evelyn Thomson
David Thornburgh
Sarah Tishkoff
Eric Trager
Mark Trodden
Eve Troutt Powell
David Wallace
Yuhua Wang
Michael Weisberg
Liliane Weissberg
Jane Willenbring
Tukufu Zuberi
Masao Sako
Eric Schelter
Marc Schmidt
Susan Schneider
Gino Segre
Heather Sharkey
Ian Skahill
Rogers Smith
Dyana So
Wendy Steiner
Peter Struck
Kok-Chor Tan
Deborah Thomas
Evelyn Thomson
David Thornburgh
Sarah Tishkoff
Eric Trager
Mark Trodden
Eve Troutt Powell
David Wallace
Yuhua Wang
Michael Weisberg
Liliane Weissberg
Jane Willenbring
Tukufu Zuberi
Beth Linker
Heather Love
Irina Marinov
Enrique Mendoza
Antonio Merlo
Melanie Micir
Jonathan Moreno
Carol Muller
Chris Mustazza
Christopher Nichols
Conor Nickel
Yuval Orr
Emily Owens
Brendan O’Leary
Deven Parker
Kathy Peiss
Victoria Pisini
Alain Plante
Kevin Platt
Joshua Plotkin
Jill Portnoy
Samuel Preston
Adrian Raine
Guthrie Ramsey
Andrew Rappe
Philip Rea
Paul Rozin
Ayelet Ruscio
Heather Love
Irina Marinov
Enrique Mendoza
Antonio Merlo
Melanie Micir
Jonathan Moreno
Carol Muller
Chris Mustazza
Christopher Nichols
Conor Nickel
Yuval Orr
Emily Owens
Brendan O’Leary
Deven Parker
Kathy Peiss
Victoria Pisini
Alain Plante
Kevin Platt
Joshua Plotkin
Jill Portnoy
Samuel Preston
Adrian Raine
Guthrie Ramsey
Andrew Rappe
Philip Rea
Paul Rozin
Ayelet Ruscio
Steven J. Fluharty
Mary Frances Berry
Michael Gamer
Robert Ghrist
David Grazian
Jeffrey Green
Campbell Grey
Joseph Hallman
Ian Hartshorn
Paul Hendrickson
Renata Holod
Michael Horowitz
Benjamin Horton
John Jackson
Daniel Janzen
Alexander Jerneck
Douglas Jerolmack
Jeffrey Kallberg
Suvir Kaul
Donald Kettl
Junhyong Kim
Hans-Peter Kohler
Alan Charles Kors
Bruce Kuklick
Demie Kurz
Robert Kurzban
William Labov
Annette Lareau
Mary Frances Berry
Michael Gamer
Robert Ghrist
David Grazian
Jeffrey Green
Campbell Grey
Joseph Hallman
Ian Hartshorn
Paul Hendrickson
Renata Holod
Michael Horowitz
Benjamin Horton
John Jackson
Daniel Janzen
Alexander Jerneck
Douglas Jerolmack
Jeffrey Kallberg
Suvir Kaul
Donald Kettl
Junhyong Kim
Hans-Peter Kohler
Alan Charles Kors
Bruce Kuklick
Demie Kurz
Robert Kurzban
William Labov
Annette Lareau
Daedalus Quartet
Ted Abel
Robert Alterman
Margaret Andrews
Vijay Balasubramanian
Sarah Barringer Gordon
Herman Beavers
Karen Beckman
Etienne Benson
Charles Bernstein
Gary Bernstein
Cristina Bicchieri
Nancy Bonini
Philippe Bourgois
Rebecca Bushnell
Anthea Butler
Camille Charles
Paul Cobb
Timothy Corrigan
Peter Decherney
Dennis DeTurck
Francis X. Diebold
Angela Duckworth
Jack Dwiggins
Jamal Elias
James English
Martha Farah
Steven Finn
Ted Abel
Robert Alterman
Margaret Andrews
Vijay Balasubramanian
Sarah Barringer Gordon
Herman Beavers
Karen Beckman
Etienne Benson
Charles Bernstein
Gary Bernstein
Cristina Bicchieri
Nancy Bonini
Philippe Bourgois
Rebecca Bushnell
Anthea Butler
Camille Charles
Paul Cobb
Timothy Corrigan
Peter Decherney
Dennis DeTurck
Francis X. Diebold
Angela Duckworth
Jack Dwiggins
Jamal Elias
James English
Martha Farah
Steven Finn